Crossword clues for naif
naif
- Green one
- Innocent person
- Unworldly person
- Innocent soul
- Dewy-eyed one
- Childlike person
- Wide-eyed one
- Unworldly sort
- Artless sort
- "Born yesterday" sort
- Wide-eyed type
- Wide-eyed child
- One with no idea
- Innocent, simple soul
- Innocent, inexperienced one
- Innocent newbie
- Innocent in Nice
- Ingenuous sort
- Ingenuous individual
- Gullible (variation)
- Artless person
- Innocent one
- Babe in the woods
- Wide-eyed sort
- Artless one
- One who's easily duped
- Ingenuous one
- Innocent sort
- Credulous
- Lacking savoir-faire
- Inexperienced person
- Unversed sort
- Gullible one
- Unsophisticated sort
- A poem by Byron ultimately artless
- Easy mark
- Gullible sort
- Inexperienced one
- One wet behind the ears
- Unsophisticated person
- Unsophisticated one
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Naif \Na"["i]f`\ (?; formerly ?), a. [F. na["i]f. See Na["i]ve.]
Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
Na["i]ve; as, a na["i]f remark.
--London Spectator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French naïf, literally "naive" (see naive). As a noun, first attested 1893, from French, where Old French naif also meant "native inhabitant; simpleton, natural fool."
Wiktionary
a. naive. n. One who is naive.
WordNet
adj. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" [syn: naive] [ant: sophisticated]
Wikipedia
Naif (, ) is a locality in Deira side of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a commercial and residential locality. Considering the nearby localities, Naif is larger in size. It is one of the oldest localities. The residents of this locality are mainly South Asians.
Naif has the second-highest population density of all communities in Dubai (after Ayil Nasir).
Naif is a locality in Deira side of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Naif may also refer to:
Naif is an Indonesian band from Jakarta formed in 1995. It currently consists of David Bayu Danangjaya (vocals), Fajar Endra Taruna (guitar), Franki Indrasmoro Sumbodo (drums), and Mohammad Amil Hussein (bass). They are known for their retro sound and style. Two of their songs, "Mobil Balap" ("Racecar") and "Posesif" ("Possessive"), were listed by Rolling Stone Indonesia in its 2009 list of the best Indonesian songs of all time.
Usage examples of "naif".
Moreover, if an author set himself to invent the naif things that children might do in their Christmas plays at home, he would hardly light upon the device of the little troupe who, having no footlights, arranged upon the floor a long row of candle-shades.
Plato--which is as modern in feeling and phrase as anything done in Boston--in the naif and direct Herodotus, and, above all, in the King James vernacular translation of the Bible, which is the great text-book of all modern literature.
Then she had been a naif, a country girl running away from the pain of a bungled marriage and a vacant home.
Brom had become stylish enough to escape, and a naif was present to take over the job.
The drop in the dropper was like the black rain of NYC which was like the money shot in a porn film which was like the tears from the Balkan statuary of the Virgin in the naif style.
Oh, Devils and dung-lice, I’ve done it now, done it, and no other naifs coming to town soon enough.
Or true naifs, simpletons, those who would never learn the ways of the world, the eternally surprised, the perpetually astonished?